32 DIVISION Divisional Troops 219 Machine Gun Company

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 219 Machine Gun Company, Divisional Troops, 32nd Division, covering April 1917 to February 1918 across 163 pages. It names 34 places across 51 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries two reports, narratives and plans, 64 Operation Orders and three appendices. Among the papers are: Fire Organisation Orders. L. Battery; Fire Organisation Orders. K. Battery. The diary opens at Douilly on 1 April 1917. 1917 is spent at Nieuport, Bray Dunes, Oost Dunkerke, Ypres and Coxyde. 1918 at Grasse Payelle, Elverdinghe, Boesinghe, Langemark and Woesten. It closes at Boesinghe on 28 February 1918. Nieuport is where it spent longest, 67 days across five separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 30. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Irish Farm and Ypres Canal Bank. In 1917 it is also recorded at Ch De Pommery, Savy, Auroir, Foreste, Languevoisin, Curchy, Rosieres, Thennes, Villers Bretonneux and Neuf-Berquin.